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...begin a new study to assess the arsenic risk kids face in playgrounds, and the EPA plans similar investigations in the fall. The EPA is also reviewing more than 300 pesticides (including the arsenic in CCA) to decide whether it will continue to approve their use. With the current flap over CCA, there is a fair chance arsenic won't make...
...know something's out there you can't do something to fix it," says the agent. "That's why so many agents kept their stuff locked up in their desk where it couldn't get screwed up." Name a sensitive, headline-making case and you can find a flap over lost-and-found documents. The humiliations range from the Congressional investigations into director J. Edgar Hoover's massive COINTELPRO domestic surveillance program to the overzealous terrorism investigation by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) to the Chinese espionage cases of the late 1990s...
...problem highlighted by the McVeigh case document flap, Dies says, is that even when a field office correctly dispatched documents to the command center in Oklahoma City, there was no system for acknowledging their receipt and logging them in, which meant that the sending office never knew whether the documents got to the McVeigh case file...
...grab hold of the station. In 1994, Mir lost its orientation, causing most of its onboard systems to sputter out, including the fans that keep oxygen circulating. To stay alive, the cosmonauts had to wave their hands in front of their faces to gather in breathable air and flap away carbon dioxide until Mir could power up again. "No one knew how torturous it was for the cosmonauts," says Bezyaev. "They spoke absolutely coolly...
...when the first results of the trials appeared in the Journal last week, researchers found themselves mired in an even deeper flap. The surgery did help some patients a little, partially alleviating the rigidity and slow movements typical of Parkinson's. But for others, that improvement came at a price: a year or more after the operation, about 15% of patients developed uncontrollable writhing, joint flexing, chewing and other movements. At least one person was so debilitated that he could no longer eat and had to be fed through a tube...